zerocopy: Deprecate Ref::cast and introduce the safer Ref::coerce #62
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This pull request adds
Ref::coerce
andRef::try_coerce
which are a series of valid conversion.These methods accomplishes a few things:
[T]
to[U]
conversions are performed. The important aspect here is the pointed-to data.trie
which only cares about the byte representation of its strings.Since coercions might overflow,
Ref::try_coerce
is available which returnsNone
if metadata coercion overflows.